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Modern World History Online
Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century to the present.
To use Modern World History Online at home, see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder for user name and password. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.

Biography Resource Center
Use this Gale (InfoTrac) database to research important people of the Cold War era.
To use Biography Resource Center at home, enter a library card number from Fay School (see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder) or any public library in Massachusetts in the box below. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.

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WEB SITES

CNN: Cold War
Detailed information on subjects such as the Iron Curtain, Marshall Plan, Korean War, Sputnik, Cuba, Vietnam, China, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Learn about the Cold War experience from articles, images, streaming video, maps, and timelines.

Nuclear Files
Issues and history of the nuclear age, including the Cuban missile crisis and the cold war.

China: 50 Years of Communism
A special report from BBC News. Scroll down for article titles, which each have additional links.

Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution
An online exhibit of Chinese posters from 1963-1979.

Red-Color News Soldier
Li Zhensheng, a Chinese photographer, chronicles his odyssey through the cultural revolution. You need to scroll right to view the photographs, and mouse-over each for an explanation.

Fast Attacks & Boomers
The Smithsonian presents an exhibition of submarines in the Cold War.

Cold War Civil Defense Museum
This virtual museum offers bomb shelter inventories and tours, official posters from the Office of Civil Defense, and audio files of radio warnings.

Human Radiation Experiments
The U.S. Dept. of Energy tells the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects.

Russian Roulette
A PBS Frontline report on the safety and security of Russia's nuclear arsenal in the post-Cold War era with historical information about the Cold War.

Berlin Wall
The Freedom Forum tells the story and includes a timeline, streaming video and differing news reports from East and West.

The Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975
This Vassar College site includes an overview, important documents and links to other sources.

Cuban Missile Crisis
History Out Loud presents audio files (Real Audio required) and history of this incident .

Palestine Liberation Movement
Information from the Palestinian (PLO) viewpoint.

American Presidents' Foreign Affairs
Information from the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

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updated 09/06/2007

 

 


 

 


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